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Title Author Year Publication type
In the Shadows of the Big House Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana Stephen Small 2023 Book
Written On Water Translated by Andrew F. Jones 2023 Book
The Word of the Muse Bridgette Portman 2023 Book
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book

The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

2021

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past.

When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with...Read more about The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

2020

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to...Read more about The Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

2020

Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American...Read more about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

2020

How can sites of waste disposal be marked to prevent contamination in the future? The United States government addressed this challenge in planning for nuclear waste repositories. Consulting with experts in imagining future scenarios, in language and communication, and in anthropology, the...Read more about The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing the World's Most Hazardous Material

The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

2020
An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects...Read more about The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

2020
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave†'owning women were sophisticated economic...Read more about They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

The Black Experience in Four Genres: A Handbook

2019

Four pieces in this text by writer Judy Juanita - a poem, drama, short story and essay - bring themes of

adolescence self-determination & ethnic pride grief and regret, and the gun as romantic symbol or literal destruction,

to college and high school students and to...Read more about The Black Experience in Four Genres: A Handbook

The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions

2019
The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their...Read more about The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

2019

Published in 1993, America Street was the very first collection of stories about young people growing up in our diverse society. It has informed and inspired hundreds of thousands of readers. Now this influential and much-loved anthology is expanded and updated...Read more about America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

#identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

2019

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-...Read more about #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation